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Excerpt from "Short Talks" by Anne Carson

[text ID: Day after day I think of you as soon as I wake up. Someone has put cries of birds on the air like jewels.]

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What's going on with Eva Maria-Westbroek? She has been cancelling her scheduled performances for some time now... I miss her and was super excited for her Isolde and Katerina this year. I hope she's okay.

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Detail from An allegory of sculpture and architecture by Thomas Germain Joseph Duvivier

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'remote control' ensemble by hussein chalayan, s/s 2000, edition 2005 in fashion is... - the metropolitan museum of art (2014)

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'illuminated veins (after ev)' by liz collins, 2006 in radical lace + subversive knitting - david revere mcfadden (2007)

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Costume of a Harlequin (costume of Harlequin, jacket). Germanischen Nationalmuseum Nürnberg

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The fisherman and the little fish by Jean-Baptiste Oudry (1686 - 1755)

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Harlem, Photo by Richard Avedon, 1949

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Maps of imaginary worlds, from the new collection of essays by Umberto Eco, The Book of Legendary Lands. (via)

Pictured: Top: Tobias Swinden, An Enquiry into the Nature and Place of Hell (1741) Bottom: M. O. MacArthy, Carte du monde d’Homere (1849), Ulysses’s journey.

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Joan Baez and James Baldwin Attend Selma to Montgomery civil rights march, 1965. Credit: Steve Schapiro

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favorite artists (5/10): edgar degas (1834-1917)

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Susan Sontag and Peter Hujar en Perfect lovers. Art in the time of AIDS.  Show of the ART AIDS Foundation en Fundació Suñol. Barcelona.

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David Wojnarowicz Reclining (II) by Peter Hujar, 1981

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Christopher Street Pier #3 (1976) photograph by Peter Hujar

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Fran Lebowitz, 1975 by Peter Hujar

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Peter Hujar, Blanket in the Famous Chair, 1983

Blanket by Jean Charles de Castelbajac.

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Peter Hujar (American, 1934-1987), Christopher Street Pier (2), 1976